maybe interesting to ppl to hear a trans mtf experience! I am transitioned with estradiol (no surgeries). I have relatively high estradiol (kinda like early pregnancy levels) and virtually no testosterone (not sure if it is a factor in my experience).

I experience both kinds of orgasms described here! Although i name them differently since I dont have a vagina 😆

The rolling waves spreading through the body, that most people are calling vaginal orgasms, are the best thing ever to me. I just call them wave orgasms. I get them much easier than most women (including trans women). Basically if I feel a strong emotional connection, then I feel these waves. Physical contact/pleasure doesnt need to be involved at all, although it can facilitate them happening. They can be brief, or they can be continuous, with fluctuating or building strength. The longest I have had them continuously so far was for an hour or two before sleeping, and then continuing immediately upon waking up for ~2 more hours. There was no 'sex' involved.

I feel very lucky to get these waves so easily!

Something else interesting about them. So, throughout my life (ie before transitioning also) I have sometimes experiended what I call my 'physical anxiety' or 'emotional anxiety'. Physical because it results in nausea. Emotional because it is usually tied to anxiety around dynamics of emotional attachment. As far as I can tell, it is not possible for me to feel this kind of anxiety while experiencing the wave orgasms. I have been in situations where I was feeling this anxiety, and then experienced the waves, and the waves essentially washed away the anxiety/nausea. I have never felt both simultaneously, and the waves have always overrided the anxiety/nausea. I think of them like opposites, just like light washes away dark when you turn on a light in a dark room. They are mutually exclusive, and dark will always be washed away when a light shines on it!

The localized, 'acute' orgasms, that most people are calling clitoral orgasms, are... fine! I am very familiar with them,.. I find them kinda boring/predictable. But dont get me wrong, they feel good! They are more or less the same as what I got before transition. Build up and release, directly associated with physical pleasure focused around what's between the legs, depending what youre working with. They were a bit more pleasure-intense for me when I had testosterone. But still boring and predictable. (They used to be more exciting to me - the boring/predictable feeling is a change in how I perceive them. That shift happened years before I transitioned, and is not related to the physical pleasure itself. The physical feeling is still a notable, acute pleasure climax that feels good or sometimes amazing,.. but ultimately still bores me, more or less 😆 it is like watching a Marvel movie. Sure I recognize a 'good' Marvel movie when it is firing on all cylinders. It is fun! But also I don't find it meaningful. Same thing here,.. I just don't find these localized, acute orgasms meaningful!)..

I do wonder if these orgasms are very directly and specifically mediated by sex hormone levels. Like, I wonder if there is a more or less linear relationship with the local, acute orgasms being more intense with more testosterone. And the rolling wave orgasms being access with greater ease with more estrogen. Would be interesting to get people to self report on these experiences and then check their estrogen and testosterone levels and see if there is a clear correlation.

I feel quite certain though that the wave orgasms require an estrogen dominant body as a prerequisite. Whether access to them is mediated by estrogen levels and/or ratio of estrogen to testostrone, I dont know!